Izborni apstinenti protiv fasadne demokratije
Election Abstainers Against a Façade Democracy

Summary/Abstract: Searching for a more realistic conceptual and methodical framework for exploring voting behaviour in the post-communist countries, in this paper I speak primarily about voters in Serbia, and the nineteen nineties. The observed continuity in conceptualization of vote, and in pushing the non-voters into the background of surveys and analyses, might lead to a distorted picture of the electorate as a whole, as well as to misjudgements on its capacity for democracy. Therefore it is important to broaden consistently the concept of vote (to include other meanings besides support for the best party), and to include non-voters more often into analyses (even when they are not directly the research subject). That would enable us to explore more realistically and accurately the past, and, which is perhaps even more important, the future voting behaviour in Serbia, namely to found deeper understanding of the electoral results at the end of 2003. Actually, consistence of democracy depends not on the voters only, but on the parties as well.

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